On Wednesday night Joachim Low would have most likely been sitting in a hotel room somewhere in Frankfurt, Germany, when the DFB's doctor called to tell him the bad news.
Suspicions were indeed true with regards to one of his brightest stars: Marco Reus had a hairline fracture on his big toe and was injured for Friday's game.
Yet long before the news broke to the German media and Borussia Dortmund fans began to curse their luck, the World Cup-winning coach would have sat down and begun planning his tactics for the coming match all over again.